Rumi - DON'T BE BITTER MY FRIEND
DON'T BE BITTER MY FRIEND you'll regret it soon hold to your togetherness or surely you'll scatter don't walk away gloomy from this garden you'll end up like an owl dwelling in old ruins face the war and be a warrior like a lion or you'll end up like a pet tucked away in a barn once you conquer your selfish self all your darkness will change to light "RUMI, Fountain of Fire", ghazal number 3299, translated 4 December 1991 by Nader Khalili, Burning Gate Press, Los Angeles, 1994. Sign in to see full entry.